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Farewell to Niall McDevitt, a Blakean radical
February 22 1967 - September 29 2022
(L to R) Niall McDevitt by William Blake’s headstone in Bunhill Fields, a former burial ground in London, on a place identified in 2018 as Blake's grave; Rimbaud/Verlaine House at 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
[(Right) Graham from Adventco and (inset) Thomas Nugent/CC] 
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ALMOST incomprehensibly, radical poet, psychogeographer, poetry historian, activist, visionary and devout Blakean Niall McDevitt has passed away at just 55 years of age.
I had the privilege to have met Niall on several occasions over the years, I always invited him to read at any book launches or readings I did in London, a city whose rich literary and artistic history he came to be an expert on and something of a psychical curator through his legendary literary walks.
Niall was also an indefatigable campaigner for the preservation of literary sites, including the Rimbaud/Verlaine House at 8 Royal College Street, and the Bunhill Fields graves of Blake and Daniel Defoe.
A self-described flaneur, anarchist and republican, Niall was unafraid of ruffling feathered nests and throwing down gauntlets before establishments of all kinds.
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